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COMP 421:Operating Systems and Concurrent ProgrammingSpring 2008 |
This course provides a basic understanding of the software that manages a computer's hardware resources to provide a powerful abstract interface on which user programs execute. The course focuses on the control and utilization of processor, memory, storage, and network resources. The concepts in this course include operating system structure, process management and scheduling, interprocess communication, synchronization of concurrent processes, deadlock, main and secondary storage management, virtual memory, file systems, protection and security, and an introduction to networking.
The course is structured into two parts,
a principles part and a projects part.
The lectures and projects have been sequenced so that
by the time you are working on a project,
we have covered the concepts involved in that project in the lectures.
Your implementation in the projects
will help make those concepts "real" and
anchor these ideas in your mind.
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Course meetings:
- Tuesday and Thursday, 10:50-12:05, Duncan Hall 1070.
Reading assignments:
- The textbook for the class is
Operating System Concepts,
Seventh edition, by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne, 2005.
- You should have already read Chapters 1-3, 6, 4-5, 8-9, 12.1-12.5, 10-11, and 14-15.
Instructor:
- Dave Johnson,
dbj
@cs.rice.edu,
DH 3007.
Office hours: TBA.
TAs and office hours:
- Yi Guo,
yguo@cs.rice.edu,
DH 2068.
Office hours: TBA.
- Guohui Wang,
gw4314@cs.rice.edu,
DH 3001.
Office hours: TBA.
- Bo Zhang,
bozhang@cs.rice.edu,
DH 3003.
Office hours: TBA.
Course information:
- COMP 421 class newsgroup -- check it often
- Tentative schedule
- Syllabus (PDF)
- Projects
- Textbook table of contents (PDF)
- Textbook errata (PDF)